Drĕpăna

and Drĕpănum , now Trapani , a town of ♦ Sicily near mount Eryx, in the form of a scythe, whence its name ( δρεπανον , falx ). Anchises died there, in his voyage to Italy with his son Æneas. The Romans under Claudius Pulcher were defeated near the coast, B.C. 249, by the Cart hag in i an general Adherbal. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 707 .— Cicero , Against Verres , bk. 2 , ch. 57 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 474 .――A promontory of Peloponnesus. ♦ ‘Scily’ replaced with ‘Sicily’